Also, as discussed in another thread, as *any* class can have 19 strength with a tome, if they start out with 18 Strength, even non-fighter types can benefit from this - I nearly always ensure non-fighter melee types like Swashbucklers and Blades and even Clerics (though they have less need of this with Draw Upon Holy Might) have 18 starting strength, even if it means making sacrifices elsewhere (e.g. giving Blades as little as 13 Int - you can avoid scroll scribing problems by batch scribing scrolls after glugging potions of genius).